細江英公, へそと原爆 (1960)
In Eikoh Hosoe s film Navel and ABomb, featuring Hijikata Tatsumi (土方巽) and his choreography, the (Japanese) body is connected to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the utter destruction of Japan. Navel and ABomb (1960) figures the birth of a new Japanese identity in the wake of the atomic catastrophe, the subsequent defeat and occupation of Japan. Hosoe met Hijikata the year prior to Navel and ABomb. In 1959 Hijikata choreographed and performed Kinjiki (Forbidden Colors), based on the homosex
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